Isn't S&W in Springfield, MA?Houlton IS in Maine.
Much Appreciated. Yeah, your model is much more CCW friendly as I would not really consider it with the old Smith full-size models Summer time--I picked this up more for its representation of the 'gun-world' as it used to be before the Glock/Polymer revolution so to speak. I mean when you place the M&P 9 up against these 'Retro' models they are aesthetically superior in the very least and arguably as durable. Perhaps I'm headed for that infamous 'mid-life-crisis' ...You got a very nice handgun IMO. I happen to like the S&W DAO semi-autos and have several, with my most used being a 3953 (DAO version of the 3913.)
Over the years they've apparently used it as a facility for manufacturing limited production runs of their centerfire semi-autos.
AFAIK this is speculation—albeit IMHO very reasonable speculation given the oddball model choice.Model12Win said:I think it was determined that yes, these are police overruns from contracts to S&W from a department or departments still using the old steel framed S&W autos.
Compared to an M&P9 or SD9 VE, IMHO a scandium-frame round-butt 1911 with an MSRP of $1,449 can certainly be argued to be limited-production.TunnelRat said:I know my 1911sc and all of the same model I've seen came from Houlton. Maybe more than just limited production?
Compared to an M&P9 or SD9 VE, IMHO a scandium-frame round-butt 1911 with an MSRP of $1,449 can certainly be argued to be limited-production
OK, it's not limited-production in the sense that S&W artificially sets a pre-determined number of units to be sold annually, but it's limited-production in the sense that S&W simply isn't making very many of them.